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Show Tlie Silver Bill. I Washington, 10. The senate's decis ve action on the silver bill has been the universal theme of conversation conversa-tion in Washington all day and throughout this evening, and the vastly preponderating sentiment is that of more or less pronounced satisfaction. This feeling has been strengthened and extended by news from New York that, in face of the last action, assuring the enactment of the bill, gold has fallen and government govern-ment bonds have risen in value as compared with the quotations of yesterday. When the passage of the hill by the senate by a two-thirds vote was considered extremely doubtful, there seems to be practically no doubt that the house will promptly concur in the Benate amendments and it is considered probable that the motion tor concurrence may be made and adopted next Monday under a sus pension of the rules. Some objections are urged by certain members against this course, on the ground tout it would prevent any discussion or separate aotion on the senate amendments, amend-ments, two of which are not wholly I acceptable to ail silver men in the house, but these objections are not Jike'y to prevail, further thun puusibly to procure an order f.r discussion, but would have to be accepted or rejectod entirely. No essential alteration of the terms of the bill, as passed by the Benate, is anticipated, aven if it goes to a coo ference committee, and the whole present probhbililus strongly favor its using laid before the president early next week, without any further change whatever. Washington opinio m are about equally divided as to whether the president will veto the hill or allow, it to become law without his signature, although some of its enthusiastic friends confidentially predict that he will acquiesce in the action of iwj -thirds of both houses by returning it with his formal approval. Iu the event of a veto, however, there is no room whatever for doubt that his veto will he overruled. The vote of the full senate, exclusive of Sharon, will be filty-onts against twenty-four on the question of overruling the veto of this bill. The correctness of this calculation is evident by adding to the fjrty eight votes autually cast for the bill, the vote of L Harris and Faltenoj, vh were paired, and Riiitfow who was sick, but known to be enthusiastically iu lavor of the bill and ty similarly reckoning in connection con-nection with the twunly oue ueg alive v tes the votes of Hill and B it lor, wl 0 were paired with tfmr s aud P.tttersun and tiint of Eiton, u niili-silvir1 senator, vho was absent, the twenty-four twenty-four negative votes oiuuol possibly bj increased. Their distribution, geographically, geo-graphically, is as follows : Twelve from Now fiogland, two New York, two Nev Jersey, one Delaware, one, Murylaud, one South Caroliua, one. Mississippi, one Oregon, ar.d one fiom California. Divided politically, there would be fourteen republicans and ten democrats to sustain the veto acd twenty - four republican and tweuty - seven democratic senators ready to pass the bill over it, Davis of Illinois being for the purposes of this calculation, as he may in fact be practically considered fjr all others, classed aa a democrat. |